Quality assurance and its impact from higher education institutions? perspectives. Methodological approaches, experiences and expectations
| Autor: | Susanne Klöpping, Radu Vacareanu, Bernhard Minke, Stelian Andrei Bejan, Tero Janatuinen, Heikki Malinen, Jouni Antero Jurvelin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Higher education
business.industry Teaching staff media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Outcome measures 050301 education Sample (statistics) Public relations Education Management Political science 0502 economics and business Evaluation methods Quality (business) ta516 business 0503 education Quality assurance ta512 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Quality in Higher Eduation. 21(3):343-371 |
| ISSN: | 1353-8322 |
| Popis: | This paper reports on methodological approaches, experiences and expectations referring to impact analysis of quality assurance from the perspective of three higher education institutions (students, teaching staff, quality managers) from Germany, Finland and Romania. The presentations of the three sample institutions focus on discussing the core characteristics of quality assurance procedures applied and their expected and observed impacts, and how intended and non-intended undesirable ones are measured. It turns out that all sample institutions have already some instruments and sub-procedures in place for impact analysis of quality assurance and all of them are striving for further improvement by applying internal and external quality assurance procedures and impact analyses. Finally, a closer look at the recently revised Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area shows that the European sample institutions are on their way towards coherent quality assurance poli... |
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